ABSTRACT
This chapter considers well-being and education through a focus on policy and practice in the UK, whilst making some links with concerns about well-being in other nations. It draws on an inter-disciplinary seminar series funded by the Economic and Social Research Council in Great Britain between 2007 and 2009. The series was the first time that research, policy and practice around emotional well-being had been explored from different disciplinary perspectives, by academics, representatives from policy groups and practitioners in welfare and education, and the first time that developments in Britain had been related to other countries and historical contexts (see Ecclestone, 2011). The chapter summarises key concerns driving policy and practice, and the interventions that arise from them, identifies implications for educational purposes and highlights some contested questions.
